Lyon v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co.

JAMES, Chief Justice.

In this cause all the testimony was by witnesses offered by plaintiff, and when it was in, the court directed the jury to render a verdict for the defendant.

The petition alleged that plaintiff was at the time of his injury a conductor of one of its freight trains; that it became necessary and a part of his duty to step in between two of its cars to repair a draw-head; that whilst so engaged the engine and a car attached thereto backed and caused plaintiff to be pinned between the cars where he was repairing the drawhead, seriously injuring him; that at the time no person…